Lesson number four. Now we're going to take the check barre chords that you've learned. And if you haven't learned those chords, if you're a beginner and you haven't got those chords down, you probably want to stay away from this for a little bit longer practice those chords more. But if you're ready, here we go. We're going to look at three typical Chuck barre chord progressions, ways that he put chords together to create songs. And what I've done here is identified three patterns that he uses in a number of different songs.

The first one is in the key of E flat, and this is the song rock and roll music, which is one of his most famous songs. In that song. It's in the key of E flat, he's gonna play this E flat chord, which is the second position barre chord barring from the sixth fret to the eighth fret. Then that's the one chord, that's the first chord in the progression. And those terms like one chord, four chord, and all that has to do with the notes in the scale. So in the E flat scale, the one is the E flat.

So our song is in the key of E flat, that's going to be our one before is going to be an eight flat seven. So look at how I make this chord I've got the first position barre chord a flat with my bar at the fourth fret and my pinky goes on the seventh fret of the second string. And then the five chord we're going to move that shape up two frets to get to a B flat seven. That is a typical Chuck Berry, E flat three chord progression, listen to songs like back in the USA, roll over Beethoven and the one we're going to work with here rock and roll music. They all have the same basic pattern. So anyways, The song The song has two parts to it.

He is the one part where he's going to go back and forth from the one to the five from the E flat seven. To the five. He actually starts on the five. So, play something like this. That's the part he plays over the, the lyrics, the verses. When he gets to the chorus, just let me hear some of that rock that part.

You got this. Go on. goes back and plays the song. So listen to the rock and roll music is in the key of E flat and get those chords play along with it. And if when you do the later lessons and learning the boogie Bay, that's called the boogie bass then you can go back and practice that to check Barre on some of the songs had a second guitar player on other songs he played by himself. And one technique when you're using those chords when I'm playing this, you know, flatten that finger out on the ring finger so you can kind of get the chord with.

Here how I did that I'm kind of combining this with court. And when Chuck Berry played on the song, he would do that because he didn't have a second guitar player most of the time or on some of his recordings, so listen to rock and roll music that is a three chord progression E flat, a flat seven, B flat seven and look at that pattern. So anytime you got a song that the one is a second position bark or you're going to follow that same three chord pattern. Now our second example is what I call the Maybelline progression and this is in the key of B flat. Now you could play a B flat first position barre chord, but Chuck Berry and several of his songs Nadine 30 days and of course, Maybelline. He played the B flat as a second position barre chord between the first and the third frets.

And let me just play a little bit of this for you and then we'll talk about that is the basic Maybelline progression. what he's doing is doing this alternating Bass while playing the second position barre chord. So if you make the second position barre chord shape on the first and third fret, you've got a B flat, same as this. And all I'm doing is hitting the first fret of the fifth string. And then I'm getting the chord, which is really the third fret, second, third and fourth string. And after I do that, I'm going with my first finger, just moving it over to the sixth string and doing the same thing.

And then I move that when I get to the four, which is an E flat, I just moved between the sixth and the eighth fret. Back to the one. For the five, I'm gonna make my first position barre chord shape, which is an app. And I'm gonna do the same thing but I'm getting the third fret of the fifth string, and the first fret of the sixth string is my bass and I'm doing the court back. So that is a progression that Chuck Berry used and at least three of his more popular songs. very controversial.

Chuck Berry always said he was influenced by white country music as a young young man. One last example for you here another typical Chuck Berry progression where he uses the C seven shape as one court. And there's a 10 called beautiful Delilah or he plays something like this. That kind of janky chord songs like I'm talking about you. What's another one? Betty Jean Jean didn't really have that as much.

I'm talking about you has that and then there's one called our little rendezvous that uses this kind of court. regression. So this is my cset. So I could play a C seven here. But check almost always played it using the shape and he couldn't move this shape. If he moves it two frets up, got a D seven, f seven, you can move this all over the place.

So when you use this is a one instead of a C major, it's the same idea. So in C we go. But when we use the C seventh, we're just going to our one chord is the C four chord is an F seven. And then our five chord is a g7. And that's something that Chuck Berry likes to do a lot but there's a progression. Now there's some other secondary progressions and some involving the bogie base that we're going to look at in the next couple couple lessons.

Listen to the song. So for the first example rock and roll music is a good one. The second example Maybelline and then the third example here listen to beautiful Delilah. It's a simple song that uses those chords and it's a good one for you to practice with.